How will the "large scale" definition under EU
RoHS impact your operations?

How do suppliers of semiconductor and
photovoltaic manufacturing equipment determine whether their equipment meets
the “large-scale” qualification for “Large-Scale Stationary Industrial Tools”
per the European RoHS Directive?

The European Union RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU,
known as RoHS2 became effective January 3, 2013. It is a revision (a ‘recast’)
of the original EU RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC. A significant change in RoHS2 is
the introduction of definitions for two types of equipment that are excluded
from the scope of RoHS2 — large-scale
stationary industrial tools (LSIT), and large-scale fixed installations (LFI).
Several parameters are given for identifying these equipment types, including
that they be ‘large-scale.’ However, RoHS2 does not provide any guidance as to
what ‘large-scale’ means.

SEMI
has a working group addressing member compliance issues related to the EU RoHS
regulation. The group has worked on addressing RoHS regulatory exclusions
for "Large-Scale Stationary Industrial Tools" (LSIT or LSSIT). As
part of the on-going activities for this, the group produced a Whitepaper
recommending size and weight metrics for addressing "large-scale."
The White Paper is for use by SEMI members and their partners to help them understand
how their products may fit under the exclusion.

Note: The SEMI RoHS Working Group (and other
organizations) use the acronyms LSIT and LFI for “Large-Scale Stationary
Industrial Tools” and “Large-Scale Fixed Installations”, respectively. The FAQ
treats the hyphen differently and uses LSSIT and LSFI as acronyms. The former
set is used in this whitepaper.